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Job summary

Main area
Paediatric Surgery
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (On-call 1:11 for Paediatric Surgery on-call and 1:4 for TOF on-call)
Job ref
411-SUR-25-7479108
Employer
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Alder Hey Childrens Foundation Trust
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/09/2025 23:59

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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant in Paed Surgery - Special Interest in Thoracic & Upper GI

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

  • Great flexible working opportunities
  • Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

A Paediatric and Neonatal Consultant is required to join the Department of Paediatric Surgery and Urology at Alder Hey. The successful applicant will work alongside the current consultant team to provide outpatient and inpatient services at Alder Hey. They will also be expected to provide services at one or more partner hospitals. They will join the sub-specialty Thoracic and Upper GI team. Thoracic experience is of particular importance, and recent sub-specialty exposure in this area is desirable. The candidate must have or be within 6 months of expecting to be awarded, CCT (or equivalent) in Paediatric and Neonatal Surgery. 

Close team working and participation in Multi-Disciplinary Team care will be required. The post will involve participating in both the acute general surgery on-call, and sub-specialty OA/TOF on-call rotas.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will primarily work within the Department of Paediatric Surgery consisting of 12 Consultant Paediatric Surgeons, alongside a highly skilled specialist nursing team.

The post offers 10 PA’s which consists of 8.5 Direct Clinical Care PAs, including specific PAs for on-call commitments in General Paediatric Surgery at Alder Hey Hospital, which will become a 1 in 11 with the appointment of this post, and the OA/TOF rota, which will become 1 in 4 with the appointment of this post. 1.5 PAs are allocated for SPA.

Working for our organisation

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will work alongside the current consultant team in providing emergency and elective paediatric surgery. Emergency duties will be according to a rota of approximately 1 in 10 FTE and include the full range of emergency paediatric and neonatal surgery. The sub-specialty OA/TOF rota will become a 1 in 4 commitment with the appointment of this post. 

 Emergency daytime consultant cover Monday to Friday is by a designated ‘Surgeon of the Week’ who does not have elective scheduled activity and provides continuity of care for children presenting as emergencies. This week includes input to neonatal surgical patients both at Alder Hey and Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where three times weekly ward rounds are provided. An additional ‘2nd On’ consultant provides 24 hour on-call emergency cover including split weekends (Fri/Sun and Sat) with a rest day following. There is a regular lines list which the successful candidate will be expected to participate in.

Elective activity will include both outpatient and inpatient service at Alder Hey and at partner hospital(s) with whom we hold Service Level Agreements including Glan Clwyd Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Royal Preston Hospital, Stoke University Hospital, Arrowe Park, Warrington, Leighton, Wrexham, Chester, Bangor and Hospitals

 

Person specification

Education & Training

Essential criteria
  • Full registration with the GMC (or eligible for full registration) and Licensed to Practice.
  • Completion of higher surgical training in Paediatric Surgery or equivalent
  • On specialist register or be eligible for relevant CCT within 6 months of interview
Desirable criteria
  • Post CCT experience in Thoracic Surgery
  • Evidence of involvement in research and audit in paediatric surgery

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mr Josef Taylor
Job title
Clinical Director, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Miss Fiona Murphy

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon (Specialist interest in Oncology & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery)

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

[email protected]

Mr Roland Partridge 

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon (Specialist interest in Thoracic & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery)

[email protected]

 Mrs Rachel Rowson

Service Manager for Paediatric Surgery

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust 

[email protected]

 

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